What is the small group selected from a larger group to participate in a study?
100
non-experimental
What is research when no manipulation or intervention of the independent variable is done to collect data?
100
parametric statistics
What are inferential statistical tests?
100
Instrument/Tool
What is the device the researcher uses to collect data such as a questionnaire, survey, scale, or physiologic measuring tool?
100
CINAHL
What is the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature>
200
Qualitative research
What is research that is concerned with subjective or narrative data?
200
quasi-experimental
What is a research design in which there is manipulation of the independent variable, but there is nonrandom assignment of subjects into treatment and control groups or no control group.
200
power analysis
What is a statistical procedure for determining the required sample size?
200
Inter-rater reliability
What is the degree to which 2 independent observers agree on the rating of observations or coding of qualitative data?
200
Replication Research
What is the process of repeating or duplicating a study in order to build support for an outcome?
300
Institutional Review Board
Who protects the rights of research subjects?
300
experimental
What is research that uses randomization of sample selection, manipulation of independent variable and uses a control group that does not receive experimental treatment?
300
SPSS
What is a trademark name for a statistical package for the social sciences?
300
visual analog scale
What is an inter-level measure consisting of a straight line with extreme limits of the attribute being measured at each end?
300
levels of evidence
What is the term for grading research studies related to the strength of the study?
400
Abstract
What is the concise description of a research study located at the beginning of the article?
400
pre-test/post-test
What is an experimental design in which data are collected from subjects before and after the experimental intervention?
400
inferential statistics
What are stats used to make conclusions about the probability of the findings?
400
likert scale
What is an instrument to measure attitude with a series of items ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree?
400
Accountability & Credibility
What are 2 attributes that professional nurses possess in utilizing EBN?
500
Research Utilization
What is the process of changing nursing practice from the results of one research study?
500
limitations
What are the weaknesses and uncontrolled variables affecting the generalizability of a study?
500
type I error
What is the rejection of a null hypothesis that is actually true; a decision that a relationship between variables does not exist when it does.
500
Hawthorne Effect
What is the threat to external validity of a research study in which the subject's awareness of being in the study alters his/her responses?
500
Experience, patient preferance, & scientific research
What are the three variables that are consistently utilized in evidenced based nursing?